Letter From Britain
Simon Firth brings UK music news straight from the Queen Mother’s bosom.
Letter From Britain
BOPS GO SYNTH!
April 1982
Midnight At The Oasis
August 1981
DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUMBLINGS
December 1980
PARTY GAMING WITH THE JAGS
October 1980
NEW BLUES FOR POSTMODERNISTS
September 1980
SONGS THAT AREN’T FUNNY
July 1980
FEAR OF REPTILES
May 1980
COUNTING FLOWERS ON THE WALL
April 1980
TOO LATE FOR TEARS
February 1980
Pretty Vacant
December 1979
Mods Recycled
August 1979
Punk Has Risen From The Grave
June 1979
Waiting For The End Of The World
May 1979
Stiffing The Colonies
April 1979
Goodbye To All That
March 1979
Wish I Was There
December 1978
Living Up To Bowie
November 1978
Diary Of A Nobody
October 1978
The Shapes Of Things To Come
July 1978
Never Mind The Bollocks— It's Christmas!
February 1978
Growing Up Absurd
January 1978
We’re Left, They’re Wrong, He”s Gone
December 1977
Queen Of The Silver Squalour
September 1977
Stuck in the Grooves With the Bourgeois Blues
August 1977
Who Needs Robert Morley?
July 1977
IAN HUNTER FIGHTS BOREDOM (AND PASSES FOR DAVID BYRON)
June 1977
How Low Can You Get?
May 1977
Anarchy In The UK
March 1977
Punks, Weeds And The Irish Question
February 1977
Goodbye To All That
January 1977
August Vacation Blues
November 1976
Innocents Abroad
September 1976
Is Disco The Real Avant-Garde?
August 1976
The Walrus Was Ringo!
July 1976
Q: Why Do Limeys Love C&W?
June 1976
Lively Up Yourself!
April 1976
Casing The Promised Land
March 1976
If It’s Tuesday (or Wednesday or Thursday or...) This Must Be The Bar
January 1976
Flattened By The Bay City Rollers
November 1975
Blood On The Aristocrats
October 1975
God Save The Grateful Dead, Or Someone Like Them
June 1975
All Eyes Turn To America
April 1975
Why Flash-Rock Is More Cosmic Than Ever
February 1975
Musical Choirs, Odds and Ends
December 1974
Something Might Happen
November 1974
Thank God It’s Not Summer (Anymore)
October 1974
Trouble, Trouble
July 1974
Of Revivals & Ronson
June 1974
What’s the Ugliest Part of YOUR Bodg?
May 1974
No Time To Weep And Moan
April 1974
Peculiarities of the English
February 1974
Micky & The Poor Boys-Fourth Time Around
January 1974
Notes From Nowhere
November 1973
Rock a doodle doo Or Time takes a cigarette
August 1973
Get On Whille You Can At Twelve Or Never
June 1973
Let’s Drink To The Hard Working People
April 1973
Get Down And Get With It
March 1973
Elected: A Letter for the Pig
January 1973
Everybody’s in Show-biz Everybody’s a Star
December 1972
Keep On Runnmg Politics And Its Discontents
November 1972
Magic Moments Catch A Falling Star
October 1972
Join Together With The Band
September 1972
Devil or Angel?
August 1972
Notes On T. Rex
July 1972